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Big Data for poverty measurement insights from a scoping review
Stubbers, Michae͏̈la; Holvoet, Nathalie - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405612
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Dynamics of immigrant resentment in Europe
Salomon, Katja - 2020
A test of social explanations of immigrant resentment – contact, threatened responses, grievances, social disintegration, political persuasion, socialization contexts – across 30 European countries between the years 2002–2016 (N=308.430) provides the background for a comprehensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387970
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962944
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Identifying income and wealth-poor households in the euro area
Müller, Philip; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015
In this paper, we analyse different measures of asset and income poverty using micro-data for 15 euro area countries from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific definitions of income and wealth poverty affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373659
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234179
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Microfinance at the margin : experimental evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; Harmgart, Heike; … - 2014
We use a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to analyse the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study population are loan appli-cants that would normally have just been rejected based on regular screening. We find that access to credit allowed borrowers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247395
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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247409
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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704
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Poverty and transitions in health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michał - 2013
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782757
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A deprivation-based assessment of energy poverty : conceptual problems and application to Germany
Heindl, Peter; Schüßler, Rudolf - 2019
In this paper, subjective and objective aspects of deprivation are used to derive an aggregated multidimensional … measure of energy poverty. The proposed measure is based on deprivation with a direct relation to energy consumption, but it … likelihood of energy deprivation in Germany, but these variables only partially constitute energy poverty. Other aspects, e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098484